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Simon McBurney Quotes

I remember the fact that milk was delivered every day by a milkman. In summer, my mother would make what now seem in my middle-aged imagination the most delicious iced milkshakes.

Simon McBurney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: english
Birth: August 25, 1957

Topics

Mother Day Imagination Remember Milk

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

Jim Lee

Life Book Voice Key Just One Just

One of the reasons 'Boogie Nights' is one of my favorite movies is because it's about people in this gross industry, but they actually treat each other kind of like family. And at the end of the day, they're really kind to each other, and I feel like that is what we have.

Jennifer Konner

Family Day People Treat End Feel

I've been called a funny person for a long time. I don't know that I know anything about comedic acting.

John Cho

Funny Time Long Acting Person Know

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

Mayte Garcia

Anger People Believe Energy Say

I was a shy little kid, and getting up in front of people and making them laugh and being able to carry on a dialogue rather than a monologue was something that was pretty interesting to me because you could set yourself up - you could ask a question and then answer it.

Jeff Dunham

Yourself People Me Laugh Interesting

When I wrote 'The Alexandria Link,' I discovered that we are only aware of about 10 percent of the knowledge of the ancient world. In the ancient world, most of the knowledge was destroyed. Every emperor of China who came in wiped out everything that came before them, to the point that the country completely forgot its past.

Steve Berry

Knowledge Past World Country Out

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.

Spike Jonze

World Think Feel Trying More Out

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Luis Bunuel

Daily Me Luck Plan You Bad

Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest to us in our earliest years.

Lucy Larcom

Best Childhood Understand Others Us

The mission of the A.R.T. is to expand the boundaries of theater through works of the canon and the new works of tomorrow.

Diane Paulus

Tomorrow Mission New Boundaries

Are there challenges? Absolutely. But in aggregate, this is a very strong and valuable company.

Bob Iger

Challenges Strong Company Valuable

If you look at the copies of Churchill's speeches that have survived, they are heavily marked up. He was scrupulous about the impact of each word. He preferred short words and the repetition of short words. He knew everything about the techniques of rhetoric.

Anthony McCarten

Words Impact Short You Look Up